Your Turn: August 18

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August 15, 2014
: Updated: August 17, 2014 4:59pm

Charlie Amato, a Spurs shareholder, and Spurs point guard Tony Parker in 2011. Amato recently commented on the possibility of the Oakland Raiders relocating to San Antonio, and a reader wonders if the Spurs want the competition.

If we took all the billions spent on border security, every undocumented individual could be taken care of — easily.

We brag about being a Christian nation. We can afford millions of dollars for tickets to all sorts of events — entertainment, sports and political fundraisers — but we cannot afford to take women and children fleeing horrible conditions across the border.

People, voters, quit complaining about the political mess and do something about it.

Vote out all the career politicians at all levels of government and get new blood flowing. Put term limits on politicians, take away all the perks they have voted for themselves and their families. Force them to act as the system intended them to act — for the people, not for the special people.

I can say it no better than Albert Einstein did: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

But wait, we would rather stay with the norm than take a chance on change. So either stay on the pot and complain or get off the pot and do something about it.

Sue Brown

Today or tomorrow

Filling all the potholes and adding lanes to the freeways is an investment in the next decade.

Building a streetcar system is an investment in the next century and beyond.

Mark Porter

Highway option

Re: “Work now slated on section of Loop 1604,” Metro, July 30:

Now that streetcars are no longer in the plan, at least for now, could we use those funds to get construction of the interchange at Texas 151 and Loop 1604 underway again?

How long should the endangered species environmental study take?

Perhaps the funds set aside for streetcars could be used to relocate the “blind, cave-dwelling spider” to downtown lofts and condos.

The drug cartels, the gang members, the vicious criminals in Central America are all supposedly why these immigrant “children” are escaping their countries and crossing the U.S.

Let us not forget that the above criminal elements were once children themselves in the not too distant past.

Magdalena Coronado

Surge of terrorism

Our foreign policy warnings about radical Islamic global terrorism seem to be falling on deaf ears in the Middle East.

It is the same with the “stern” rhetoric from the United Nations levied toward Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The irrelevance of the U.N. and talk about drawing “red lines” in the sand by world leaders will not solve any of the Palestinian/Israel issues in the foreseeable future.

The problem will not be solved until those in charge realize that this global surge of terrorism embedded in radical Muslim Islamic ideology is to annihilate Israel and eventually eliminate our western culture and Judeo-Christian beliefs.

It's past time for the Washington crowd to get their heads out of the sand.

One definition of “militia” is: “a military force that engages in rebel or terrorist activities, typically in opposition to a regular army.”

We should call them what they are — “armed vigilantes.” These are people who have decided to take the law into their own hands, much like the KKK. This is not American. It is not democracy. It is wackos run amok, and real Americans should be very frightened and angry over this.

These so-called “militias” were probably high school bullies who grew up to be losers.